Died. Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, U.S.N., 77, tall, frosty,
wartime (1942-45) Chief of Naval Operations, 1941 commander of the U.S.
Atlantic Fleet; of a heart ailment; in Kittery, Me. Before the dust had
cleared from the Pearl Harbor debris, President Roosevelt summoned
bleak, bottle-bald Ernie King from the Navy's second oceanwhere he
had directed the Atlantic's undeclared war of 1941to lay down a
massive plan of defense and counterattack in the...